Few beverages can claim to have been both currency and medicine, yet Fu brick tea—one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese da...

If green tea is the fresh-faced scholar of Chinese leaf lore, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the weathered caravan master wh...

When caravans left the humid river ports of Hunan in the 17th century, their most precious cargo was not silk or porcelain but a ...

Among the six great families of Chinese tea, dark tea—hei cha—remains the most enigmatic to outsiders. Within this shadowed realm...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea. To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty building block—compressed, eart...

If green tea is the fresh-faced youth of Chinese tea culture, then Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá) is the wise elder whose stories ar...

Among the six major chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the only one whose value is measured not by the tende...

Few Western tea lovers realize that one of the world’s most microbiologically complex beverages travels under the deceptive sobri...

Among the six great chromatic families of Chinese tea, dark tea (heicha) is the least understood abroad, yet it once lubricated t...

Few beverages carry the quiet gravitas of Fu brick tea (Fú zhuān chá). To the uninitiated it looks like a dusty grey-brown build...